DISCLAIMER: I own no part of Naruto, great or small.

A/N: Yet more drinking ensues . . . oh deary me.

Tsunade – August 2nd

"Are you sure about this?" A blonde girl asks her silver-haired companion.

"Trust me, it'll be fine" he assures her

"I'd feel better if Orochimaru were coming along"
"Why? He'd only spoil the evening for me"

"Hmmm . . ."

"Just meet me at seven in the usual place. And pad out your bra – princess or not you're still too flat-chested to pass for eighteen"

"So what now?"

"Now we find a bar – preferably with lots of cute girls for me!"

"Jiraiya, whose birthday is this?"

"ehehe sorry"

"Well find us a bar then"

"Two bottles of sake my man!"

"Coming right up sir"

"I'm supposed to be Nawaki's role model. How is underage drinking going to help that image?"

"Just relax! And don't talk so loud about the underage part"

"Here you go sir, two bottles" .:chink:. .:slosh:.

"Thanks very much. Oh here – let me pour you some of that"

". . ." .:slurp:. "This . . . this is good!"

"I told you so didn't I?"

"But this is really, really good!"

"Woah, hey slow down there princess – ah Tsunade! – " .:crash:.

"I'm .:hic:. Fine. See, I can stand up fine without yooouu!" .:crash:.

"You prove your point so well"

". . . . your hand is on my arse"

"So it is"

"It feels nice . . . ne Jiraiya?"

"mmhmm?"

With one swift move, Jiraiya's lips are pressed against his blonde friend's.

"Catch me if you can" she demands and dashes away in a surprisingly stable manner.

Jiraiya grins and rubs his hands together in a perverted manner.

"Ready or not, here I come!"

"What are you both doing in the middle of my garden in such unseemly clothes?"

"Tsunade had her first drink last night. It may or may have not lead on to her next twenty . . ."

"And I am never drinking again if this is the result"

" . . ."

"And that's how Tsunade became an alcoholic!"

"I am NOT an alcoholic you pervert!"

"mhm, mhm" Naruto nods, trying to process what his elder sensei has just divulged "So if I get Sakura drunk then she'll kiss me?"

"Precisely!"

Tsunade sighs. At least he'll have to wait until march rolls around again before he has a decent excuse for following the same tactics as his beloved sensei. Batting a balloon out of her way, Tsunade smiles at the two most idiotic and most important men in her life.

"Who's birthday is this?" she demands

"Erm . . . yours?" Naruto hazards

"Precisely, so let's focus on me. First things first; sake!"

OWARI!

It does actually worry me how many of these fics include drinking; maybe I subconsciously feel that you can't have a good party without a drink
. . .

nah!

Reviews loved as always!